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hard work

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Main Entry: hard work
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: difficult labor

Synonyms:

backbreaking work, donkeywork, drudgery, hard way, labor, long haul, tough grind, uphill battle
Main Entry: grind
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: tedious job

Synonyms:

chore, drudgery, groove*, grubwork, hard work, labor, moil, pace, rote, routine, rut, sweat*, task, toil, travail, treadmill
Main Entry: punishment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: penalty

Synonyms:

abuse, amercement, beating, castigation, chastening, chastisement, comeuppance, confiscation, correction, deprivation, disciplinary action, discipline, forfeit, forfeiture, gallows, hard work, infliction, just desserts, lumps, maltreatment, mortification, mulct, ostracism, pain, penance, proof, punitive measures, purgatory, reparation, retribution, rod, rough treatment, sanction, sequestration, short shrift, slave labor, suffering, torture, trial, unhappiness, victimization, what for

Antonyms:

encouragement, exoneration, praise, protection, reward
Main Entry: long haul
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: long period of time

Synonyms:

hard labor, hard way, hard work, interminability, labor, long distance, long wait, uphill work
Main Entry: uphill struggle
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: difficult project

Synonyms:

difficult task, hard work, tall order, tough assignment, uphill battle
Main Entry: treadmill
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: grind

Synonyms:

chore, drudgery, groove*, grubwork, hard work, labor, moil, pace, rote, routine, rut, sweat*, task, toil, travail
Related Words
Main Entry: punishment
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
self, baculine, castigatory, chastened, condemnatory, condemned, damnatory, exilic, inflictive, non, punished, punishing, punitive, punitory
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Punishment.
Category: 5. Institutions

Synonyms:

-nouns
punishment,punition; chastisement, chastening; correction, castigation., discipline, infliction, trial; judgment; penalty; retribution; thunderbold, Nemesis; requital (reward); penology; retributive justice., lash, scaffold (instrument of punishment); imprisonment (restraint); transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys; beating; flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow (impulse); stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade., capital punishment; execution; hanging; electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines; decapitation, decollation; garrotte, garrotto; crucifixion, impalement; martyrdom; auto-da-fe; noyade; happy dispatch., hara-kiri, seppuku.
-verbs
punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste., visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; do for; make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of; have a rod in pickle for; give it one., strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye., tar and feather; pelt, stone, lapidate; masthead, keelhaul., execute; bring to the block, bring to the gallows; behead, decapitate, guillotine; decollate; hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang, draw and quarter; shoot; decimate; burn; break on the wheel, crucify; empale, impale; flay; lynch; electrocute., torture; put on, put to the rack; picket., banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize; rusticate; drum out; dismiss, disbar, disbench; strike off the roll, unfrock; post., suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment; be flogged., be hanged, come to the gallows, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes; be rightly served.
-adjectives
punishing; penal; punitory, punitive; inflictive, castigatory; punished.
-phrases
culpan paena premit comes [Horace]; "eating the bitter bread of banishment" [Richard II]; gravis ira regum est semper [Seneca]; sera tamen tacitis paena venit pedibus

Antonyms:

reward
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